When I announced that my newsletter had been acquired by Workweek, I wrote: Since I wrote that, we’ve seen an acceleration of the slide in public fintech stock prices that is, even for a natural skeptic like myself, a bit surprising: We’ve also seen a corresponding cooling in VC funding for private fintech companies, as reported by CB…

3 Fintech News Stories #1: Everyone is Moving Up the Open Banking Stack What happened? Stripe announced a new product: [Stripe is] taking the wraps off Financial Connections, which will let Stripe’s customers connect directly to their customer’s bank accounts, to access financial data to speed up or run certain kinds of transactions. These include…

Why banks say no and why fintech companies lobby them to say yes.